I really liked that link you posted of the pallet planter, and I made one. It's working really well, even though it only got filled up halfway because I ran out of plants and dirt at about the same time. Only one plant didn't survive all the rest are thriving. Here's the planter built but empty, the planter just after planting, and the planter after two weeks. In case your interested, these are the plants. I'm experimenting to see waht will grow.

Oh, those white things in the middle behind the boards are pipes with holes drilled in. Someone in the comments on that site suggested it, it helps get water all teh way to the plants on the bottom.

Melinda

June 28th, 2011 12:36 PM

oh man, that is so cool!!! thanks for posting the pics of it

hazelrunpack

June 28th, 2011 02:06 PM

Wow, that's incredible!!! I remember thinking it was a cool idea, but I might actually remember to try it next year now that I've seen pics. :D I think I could put something like that up against the garage, [I]outside[/I] the dog yard. :thumbs up

As it grows, could you post more pics, pls, obc?

ownedbycats

June 28th, 2011 03:12 PM

I can post more pics, but unless the squash and water melon grow, new pictures will look pretty much like the third picture, because I have already started harvesting the plants. :cool: We have picked the lettuce to use on hamburgers and I made peppermint tea on Sunday. I kind of overdid it on the mint plants, but they were the one plant I was pretty sure would grow, and I wanted something to survive. I wasn't expecting almost everything to grow! This year I'm kind of experimenting. I put the lettuce up high in the middle and that seems to have kept it out of reach of the rabbits.
Hazel, the wall the planter is leaning against is the wall of our garage. It might be hard to see, but the planter is a little slanted because there is a stump behind it right up against the garage that we have never been able to fully remove. If you do make one either have several people with muscles available to move it after it's full, or put it upright, pack in one row of dirt really tight, put in plants, fill next row with dirt, pack tight, repeat. This thing is HEAVY and mine isn't even full all the way. If I had filled it up, I'm not sure we would have got it standing.

Dog Dancer

June 28th, 2011 03:37 PM

That is way cool! I can't imagine how people think of this stuff. That would be really good for people in an apartment.

Melinda

June 28th, 2011 03:38 PM

I wonder if I could use my plastic skid???

hazelrunpack

June 28th, 2011 04:03 PM

[QUOTE=ownedbycats;1015809]If you do make one either have several people with muscles available to move it after it's full, or put it upright, pack in one row of dirt really tight, put in plants, fill next row with dirt, pack tight, repeat. This thing is HEAVY and mine isn't even full all the way. If I had filled it up, I'm not sure we would have got it standing.[/QUOTE]

Good point. :D Will do! :thumbs up

And I'll settle for more pics only after the watermelon and squash take off! :laughing: